Fracture S3 [Taekook]

• Earn It •

"Taehyung, what if one day, we end up breaking up? Will you still love me even if we are apart?"

Taehyung turns to face Jungkook, both laying uncomfortably in Taehyung's small bed, naked with only a sheen of sweat to blanket their bodies from the warm summers air. 

"I'll always love you Jungkook, in this life and in the next." he says after a moment of silence, looking at Jungkook's side profile, observing every aspect of his boyfriend. "Why are you even thinking about a break up? You know we are stuck with each other forever." he smiles at the younger. 

Jungkook can feel the warmth radiating from that smile, putting him in a state of tranquility. "I'm sorry...Its just my thoughts are running again, and I have hard time catching them."

"That's okay, I'll help you gather them." Taehyung wraps his arm around Jungkook's hip, hugging him firmly. "Talk to me, what's bothering you?"

Jungkook frowns. "Taehyung...you know I don't like burdening you with my thoughts."

Taehyung clicks his tongue, rolling his eyes. "Baby, you can tell me anything that's on your mind, no judgments here." he playfully pokes at Jungkook's nose, Jungkook scrunches his nose in reply, both laughing at the gesture. 

But then it gets quiet again, with the cicadas sounding off their chorus outside. 

"No matter what happens, promise you'll stay by my side." Jungkook turns his body to face Taehyung, doe eyes bright with the reflection of moon inside them, glimmering his innocence to Taehyung. 

Taehyung nods, caressing his large hand along Jungkook's face, feeling his thumb along the curve of Jungkook's soft cheek, then down to his plush lips. "I promise I won't go anywhere Jungkook." he closes the gap between them, signing off his promise with a kiss. 

"You'll always have me." 

But some promises are meant to be broken, and that was one of them. 

Taehyung reflects on that memory, eyes closed, head tilted back and resting on the door. 

It has been hours since Jungkook had locked him inside the broom closet with a dead man, which Taehyung assumes was the owner of the house. 

He gave up screaming for help, his throat feeling raw and closed, his fingers numb from scratching and clawing for a way out. There was no point anymore, he was trapped. 

The silence was comforting at least, with his memories being his only entertainment, also a distraction from the dead body a few feet away from him, slowly rotting in the darkness. 

Would that be his fate too? Would Jungkook leave him to rot in the darkness while the rest of the world moves on?

Taehyung shakes his head to that intrusive thought. He knows Jungkook is not done with him, not yet. He is adamant on making Taehyung suffer first before he kills him. 

Still, Taehyung is determined to follow along, comply with Jungkook as much as he can. He still needs to see his brother Jin, needs to know that he's alive and unharmed. He has to remain alive for Jin and Jimin. 

But first he needs to get out of this broom closet. 

Willing himself to move, Taehyung touches the wooden door again, feeling around until he finds the doorknob and the lock. He jiggles it, but it doesn't move, locked in place. 

Desperation crawls through the layers of his skin, seeping out in the form of sweat. He moves the door knob again, this time more frantically, then panic sits on his shoulders, pushing him against the door, making him bang on it and call for Jungkook again.